I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to other drive to work.

Okay, so today is another in my ongoing series to talk about every magic expansion.

So I'm up to Alara Reborn. So Alara Reborn is the third set in the Shards of Alara block.

So let me talk a little bit about the block to set the scene.

So I had become a head designer in the middle of Champs of Kamagawa block.

So the first full block

that I was in charge of was Ravnica.

Then after Ravika was

time spiral, then was

Lorwyn, and then

was Shards Valara.

So my boss at the time,

Bill Rose,

he wanted to lead a block. And when your boss says, I would like to do something, you say yes. I mean, Bill had done invasion. I mean, Bill, Bill was a very good designer, so it wasn't, it wasn't if he was asking something that he shouldn't be asking. So Bill really was the one that sort of planned this block.

In fact, it's the only block during my time as head designer where I wasn't key.

I mean, I was involved, but this was Bill's vision.

So basically, Bill, so there was a couple things ahead.

Number one was, this was going to be our third multicolor block.

And so Bill was interested in finding a new space.

The first multicolored block, which Bill had led, was Invasion.

Invasion was very much play four and five colors.

Then years later, we did Ravnika. Ravnika was me trying to play as few colors as possible to stay away from invasion. So, obviously, it had to be two since multicolour. One wouldn't be multicolour. So we made the, you know, Ravenna got City of Guilds and did two-color play. So Bill's idea, which makes a lot of sense, was, well, we've done four and five, we've done two, let's do three.

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